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Get into the ring! How this works...

This is easy! Each week on Thursday I post my homily idea...my main focus for preaching this coming Sunday. What I am hoping for is a reaction from people in the pews. Does my "focus" connect with your daily life, faith, and experience? Or not? Either affirm the direction I am going in (by giving me an example from your life) or challenge me, ask for clarification! Questions are the best! Reaction rather than reflection is what I'm looking for here. Don't be afraid, get in the ring. Ole!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Advent # Homily

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Matador: Because of your last Third Thursday Theology lecture I have been praying for relief for my grandfather's lonliness before he died in 1989. We spoke of God's time as "circular" and our time as "linear." Will you reconcile for me the fact that past, present, and future is not distinct to God but yet God is only present to us now? Thanks!

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Why the Matador?

Like the matador and the matador's cape, the homilist and homily have a goal which is to incite: to move in a particular direction. Like the cape, the preached Word must be brilliant and attractive - powerful enough to draw. However, the homilist and homily can never be the final destination of the worshipper. The assembly must be able, as the Spanish say,to pass by and through the preaching into the Mysterious Encounter with God which is the Eucharist.